Hanns Zischler Movies

Johannes, a doctor of physics, travels with his doctoral supervisor to a scientific congress in the Alps. A series of mysterious incidents occur on...

The extravagant funeral for a suddenly deceased family man is attended not only by his bizarre relatives, but also by a frozen pilot from World War I...

Film is about the undercover assignment of a BKA officer as the bodyguard of a drug baron. His job is to gather information to put a stop to the...

While working on a television movie project about Franz Kafka, German actor Hanns Zischler discovered a series of passionate writings in Kafka's...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is...

Architecture student Paul has failed again. He's been dead in bed for months. His girlfriend Ulrike angrily packs her bags. Then Paul's first...

The story of the final seven months in the life of German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.

A darkly comedic exploration of personal struggle and societal pressure, we follow the story of a middle-aged man named Max, who is trapped in a life...

A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched...

A disaster-movie made in Germany.

One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was...

A group of angels look longingly upon the life of humans. Berlin now is a very different place: unified in name but overrun with crime, corruption,...

Up-and-coming writer Junghans leads a rather dull life.

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best...

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is taken into the heart of the Nazi world as a 'war...

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a...